Master Painting
posted by peppermint at 2:44 PM
In an effort to reduce the volume of snotty emails from a certain someone, I figured I would post a little "Hi, how are ya?" on some of the ongoing projects we have been finishing up around the ol' adobe - starting with our master bedroom.
Yes ... it WAS the first project that we tackled in the house, but initially our goal was really only to get it to a point where we didn't have a panic attack and then spontaneously break out into hives when we walked in there. Anything after that was like sweet, sweet Benadryl-laced icing on the proverbial cake. We started by tearing up the carpet to reveal the original wood floors (you can read about it here) and then we spent the next 24 hours soaking ourselves in bleach.
After that, we removed the stunningly retro daffodil wallpaper in the closet, primed all the wood trim and painted it white, and painted the walls a lovely shade of barely-there blue and this was where we left you:
At that point we had to declare the bedroom "good enough" while we moved on to some more urgent projects. Like troubleshooting that aroma that was coming from the dishwasher, recarpeting and painting the living room and all the other things I've posted about between then and now.
What I neglected to share was that right around the end of May Tom managed to finish painting the closet doors white and hung them back up, with a pair of new, brushed nickel "knobby dealies":
He also removed all the old tan outlets and switches and replaced them with white ones, and then THAT is where we actually abandoned the project. Now you're up to speed.
Late last week I started getting a bit irritated with myself for not tying up a lot of the loose ends we'd left in the bedroom, so I spent Friday evening and most of the morning on Saturday painting our two bedroom windows and ripping down the horrific plastic roller shades. In their place we hung these 2" faux-wood (because our last name ain't Rockefeller!!) blinds.
Once I had finished all that, Tom took the time to hang some of his Vegas photography over the bed. We had been avoiding this task like the plague because these particular frames have two hangers (one on each side) - which is nice once they're hung because they always stay level - but the actual act of hanging them equidistant and level can leave the wall looking like it was peppered with lead shot. This time around we bought some of the 3M Picture Hanging Strips (free plug) and while hanging them still required a lot of math and measuring, it was infinitely easier to fine-tune their placement so long as the strips were up in the general vicinity of where they needed to be. You just pop the frame off the wall, nudge it up/down/over where needed, then it clicks back into place. Plus if we decide to take them down or move them, we just remove the strips and we're not left with 8 holes in our wall.
And just to show that no place is sacred when you work for the family business, here's a picture of the nightstand on my side of the bed. If you can't reach us by phone, cell, fax or e-mail within a reasonable amount of time ... chances are we're dead, folks.
We're still not 100% done with the bedroom. Tom is still itching to get the 1/4 round down around the perimeter of the room, then that will need to be primed and painted to match the rest of the trim. Also there have been talks of putting up some crown molding, but that will probably be put off until we've made considerable progress on some of the other areas of the house - like the kitchen and the bathrooms. Never can tell with Tom, though, because the man likes to miter!
Our room is hard to photograph because of its size and the location of its door off the hallway, but despite all that I try to take pictures of the rooms from the same angle as the original pictures we took of the empty house, purely for comparison purposes. So here was the original master bedroom:
And here it is now:
Yes ... it WAS the first project that we tackled in the house, but initially our goal was really only to get it to a point where we didn't have a panic attack and then spontaneously break out into hives when we walked in there. Anything after that was like sweet, sweet Benadryl-laced icing on the proverbial cake. We started by tearing up the carpet to reveal the original wood floors (you can read about it here) and then we spent the next 24 hours soaking ourselves in bleach.
After that, we removed the stunningly retro daffodil wallpaper in the closet, primed all the wood trim and painted it white, and painted the walls a lovely shade of barely-there blue and this was where we left you:
At that point we had to declare the bedroom "good enough" while we moved on to some more urgent projects. Like troubleshooting that aroma that was coming from the dishwasher, recarpeting and painting the living room and all the other things I've posted about between then and now.
What I neglected to share was that right around the end of May Tom managed to finish painting the closet doors white and hung them back up, with a pair of new, brushed nickel "knobby dealies":
He also removed all the old tan outlets and switches and replaced them with white ones, and then THAT is where we actually abandoned the project. Now you're up to speed.
Late last week I started getting a bit irritated with myself for not tying up a lot of the loose ends we'd left in the bedroom, so I spent Friday evening and most of the morning on Saturday painting our two bedroom windows and ripping down the horrific plastic roller shades. In their place we hung these 2" faux-wood (because our last name ain't Rockefeller!!) blinds.
Once I had finished all that, Tom took the time to hang some of his Vegas photography over the bed. We had been avoiding this task like the plague because these particular frames have two hangers (one on each side) - which is nice once they're hung because they always stay level - but the actual act of hanging them equidistant and level can leave the wall looking like it was peppered with lead shot. This time around we bought some of the 3M Picture Hanging Strips (free plug) and while hanging them still required a lot of math and measuring, it was infinitely easier to fine-tune their placement so long as the strips were up in the general vicinity of where they needed to be. You just pop the frame off the wall, nudge it up/down/over where needed, then it clicks back into place. Plus if we decide to take them down or move them, we just remove the strips and we're not left with 8 holes in our wall.
And just to show that no place is sacred when you work for the family business, here's a picture of the nightstand on my side of the bed. If you can't reach us by phone, cell, fax or e-mail within a reasonable amount of time ... chances are we're dead, folks.
We're still not 100% done with the bedroom. Tom is still itching to get the 1/4 round down around the perimeter of the room, then that will need to be primed and painted to match the rest of the trim. Also there have been talks of putting up some crown molding, but that will probably be put off until we've made considerable progress on some of the other areas of the house - like the kitchen and the bathrooms. Never can tell with Tom, though, because the man likes to miter!
Our room is hard to photograph because of its size and the location of its door off the hallway, but despite all that I try to take pictures of the rooms from the same angle as the original pictures we took of the empty house, purely for comparison purposes. So here was the original master bedroom:
And here it is now:
Labels: homeimprovement, master
1 Comments:
Thank God you took a better picture of the "barely blue"...I was getting worried. That barely blue in the first picture was more like OH MY GOD I'M SICK WITH BLUE..um Blue.
Very, very nice.
P.S. What is your fax number? Why haven't I been sending you homemade softporn faxes!!?!? Sheesh!
G~
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